injinji
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I've heard they get some on the job training in cotton picking.I wonder how they deal with internet influencers who spread antivaxxer disinformation and tell folks the government is evil and out to get them!
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DIY-HP-LED
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The U.S. Has Had a Million 'Extra' Deaths Since the Pandemic Began
On paper, 900,000 Americans have died from covid-19—but excess death tracking tells a different story.
gizmodo.com
Budzbuddha
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Eye opening last “ 12 shots “ piece …. Sad.
captainmorgan
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My 4 free covid home tests are finally arriving today, I ordered them a day before the websites official opening when they opened early.
DIY-HP-LED
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mRNA vaccine-induced antibodies more effective than natural immunity in neutralizing SARS-CoV-2 and its high affinity variants - Scientific Reports
Several variants of SARS-CoV-2 have emerged. Those with mutations in the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE2) receptor binding domain (RBD) are associated with increased transmission and severity. In this study, we developed both antibody quantification and functional neutralization assays...
www.nature.com
captainmorgan
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Pandemics disable people — the history lesson that policymakers ignore
Influenza, polio and more have shown that infections can change lives even decades later. Why the complacency over possible long-term effects of COVID-19?
www.nature.com
captainmorgan
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New study shows a significant increase in the risk of mental health disorders after COVID-19
Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, clinical epidemiologist at Washington U. and chief of research and development for the VA in St. Louis, headed the study.
DIY-HP-LED
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Estimated 73% of US now immune to omicron: Is that enough?
This winter's omicron wave in the U.S. also bolstered our defenses, leaving enough protection against the coronavirus that future spikes will likely require much less disruption to society.
apnews.com
hanimmal
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We got ours on Monday.
captainmorgan
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Estimated 73% of US now immune to omicron: Is that enough?
This winter's omicron wave in the U.S. also bolstered our defenses, leaving enough protection against the coronavirus that future spikes will likely require much less disruption to society.
South Africa showed that people were being infected with BA2 omicron 3 weeks after a BA1 omicron infection, so no.
captainmorgan
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Urgency for Normal is a rightwing propaganda group of antivaxers.
captainmorgan
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Mild illness? Omicron causing more neurological issues than previous variants
Many who recovered from Omicron experience extreme weakness, loss of consciousness, and even a comatose state, doctors say.
www.israelnationalnews.com
DIY-HP-LED
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It's also an idea that appeals to youth and that's what make it dangerous, even among a minority of them. The perception of time speeds up as we age and for a 20 year old, this has gone on forever and they are way more socially active than middle aged and older folks. We can't go on as is, a rethink is required as are more broad spectrum vaccines, though the ones we have seem to be holding out remarkably well.
Since everybody is gonna get infected with or be exposed to the "viral vaccine", vaccine passports will go, along with mandates, the unvaxxed and vulnerable are on their own, so are the rest of us too! Masks will become optional in most settings. This pandemic/endemic will continue to kill a couple of thousand Americans a day, mostly the unvaxxed and it's been that way for awhile now as Darwin works his magic.
Some folks might be able to avoid the O's until better vaccines come along, but they will be rare! Avoid it for as long as you can and the odds increase that you will be able to get an antiviral drug treatment course, if you should come down with it. I think a year from now will see advances in vaccines/boosters, including oral and nasal spray ones, new antiviral drugs and broad spectrum antibodies. There is no reason an mRNA vaccine can't have multiple mRNA strands to deal with multiple targets in coronaviruses, not just spike proteins. As I said before, we are in the scientific pay off period now and that payoff will grow more over time and the increased understanding and tools developed will spread into other branches of medicine too.
DIY-HP-LED
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OK, let's say that the average unvaxxed is a bit touched in the head, which is why they are unvaxxed and catch a bad case of covid, which scrambles their marbles even more.Mild illness? Omicron causing more neurological issues than previous variants
Many who recovered from Omicron experience extreme weakness, loss of consciousness, and even a comatose state, doctors say.
In other words, with the unvaxxed, how would you know the weren't idiots or batshit crazy before they got sick? You can see how this might skew the results, since I believe many of the unvaxxed have mental health issues. Example: What percentage of those who stormed the capitol on 1/6 were unvaxxed? Their resemblance to the crowd in Ottawa is striking, even though they worked on their PR and got rid of the swastikas on display. They are still just as fucking nuts and every bit as stupid.
injinji
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We got ours a week or so back. Sister got hers about a week before we did, and we ordered the same day.
Roger A. Shrubber
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two years of being inconvenienced and our entire global society has become snowflakes that are already melting at the edges...better hope we're lucky and no more bad strains come along, or hospitals and icus are going to get shit on again, and EVERYTHING they're putting back into a "normal" status will have to be shut down...how will the snowflakes feel then?...
Sativied
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There has been a large increase in mental issues because of the lock downs and other measures as well. For example, in NL just the increase in youngsters below 30 who ended their own life in 2021 is higher than the number of deaths by covid in the same age group.
Next week all covid measures in NL will end. Well except for some limits on huge parties/festivals. No more early closing hours, no more mask mandates, etc. Pretty much all measures go from mandates to advice. This is with 86% vax rate, 61% boostered, currently almost 60k infections per day. Number of ICU and hospital beds occupancy continues to decline.
Many restaurants remain closed because there's too many people sick at home so no employees available. Just a month or two and I'll plant my ass in the sun for 6months. Cooler with beer, bag of weed. Might just be the last normal-ish summer.
hanimmal
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How much of that is being online far more and hate mongering trolls having far more access to them is what I would like to see studied.
DIY-HP-LED
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I just call em as I see em, like most folks I'm reserving judgement, we've been burned before. There are a small number of mostly middle aged antivaxxers, religious loonies or right wingnuts, the numbers swell with the 18 30 YO demographic, who are just probably horney and not much more.
So, since this younger demographic is at lower risk, they need fewer restrictions, policy should try to separate them from the right wing nuts and hardcore antivaxxers. This age group also has lot's of kids though and they are generally unvaxxed too, so there might be an issue there too.
I think everybody, governments included has their fingers crossed about new variants. The mass protests we saw in Europe a few weeks ago have come to Canada and ya better hope this shit doesn't spread to America, Canada has a much higher vaccination rate and not quite as many loonies. In America, the trucks would be surrounded by militia fools in body armor carrying AR15s. The whole circus crowd would be funded to the tune of hundreds of millions and the republicans would be in solidarity with the idiots, joined at the hip and would be giving them speeches.
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